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Two mature trees at Little Manly Beach, a fig & a gum, have been poisoned much to the distress of locals. The trees are dying and we are about to lose what little shade we have there. As you can see from the photo below, a number of deep bore holes were drilled into the trunk of the trees so this was no accident. What sort of person would do such a thing?

UPDATE: 13/10/12 Red faces all around at Manly Council! It has now been revealed that the trees were not poisoned at all but the work of a pest control company employed as part of the due diligence on the purchase of 40 Stuart Street, next door, by the Council. Although the drilling of eight holes into the large paper bark and three into the fig in search of white ants seems an act of 'vandalism' of another kind (see photo below, these were not small holes). The Council even engaged the help of the Manly Daily to help find "the vandals who poisoned the trees" - oh dear!

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